Nexon Looks West for Explosion in Free-To-Play Game Demand

Incoming CEO sees 'massive, massive untapped opportunity'

TOKYO--As game makers around the world scramble to make inroads in lucrative and booming Asia, one of Asia's largest online-game companies is going the other way and looking West.

Seoul-founded and Tokyo-based Nexon Co. said it would replace its South Korean chief executive with its American chief financial officer, and that its biggest opportunities lie in Western markets, where it predicts an explosion in demand for the...